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How then do you control for time pressure?
by vehementi 12y ago
How then do you control for time pressure?
- kasey_junk 12y agoAre you asking how do you judge if someone performs under time pressure? If so, my first answer is don't. If that is a serious part of your real world work, you are doing it wrong. The less flippant answer is, you give them a deadline but it is both A) flexible in the face of their "real life" (ie if they tell you they are going on vacation next week deal with it) and B) it deals with realistic time horizons (ie a week, not 4 hours).
- vehementi 12y agoSorry my post was not complete enough - what I meant was that if you have two equally good candidates, but one happens to have experience in Rails, that person is going to perform the coding test more quickly than the other candidate i.e. get a more complete / correct solution in a given amount of time. So I hope in this situation there are no time limits?
- kasey_junk 12y agoI never want to have time limits in these tests. Generally I prefer to tell the candidate "This isn't timed and we don't care how long it takes you. It tends to take x hours (where x better be less than 4) and most candidates get back to us in a week or so. If you can't do that, its completely fine, let us know when you anticipate having it done. This is just so we can judge where you are in the pipeline."
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- rhizome 12y agoDo you mean time pressure in the way that conveys that the company has poor project management? If so, you should probably find some way to explain that up front (set expectations) and non-Rails people might self-select out.